10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Tue Feb 26 11:40:23 UTC 2013

Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> writes:

> N on 5Ghz takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the 5Ghz
> channel where A merely replicated G on 5Ghz for all practical
> purposes.

You have that backwards, actually, but the legacy support in 802.11g
for 802.11b clients does represent a performance hit even in the
absence of b-only clients, so claiming that a and g are equivalent is
only true on paper.

-r (802.11a user before 802.11g, still love the relatively unoccupied
5 ghz spectrum)